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Old Bird Partridge, a Cherokee Indian, still works his magic, even though the younger generation doesn't put much faith in his methods.
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14146
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Cherokee Chief Yonaguskah was responsible for what probably was the first prohibition pact ever to be signed in the United States.
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Chunn's tavern embraced the spirit of the Wild West, notorious for drinking, fighting and vulgarity. The tavern's history stretched back to the late 18th century built on the French Broad River trail four miles west of Marshall, which ran through western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee. Chunn was a notorious character not only for the rowdy bar he owned but he was also a slave trader and thief himself. Chunn met his death while disguised as an African American attempted to rob a highway traveler.
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Sequoyah, son of a peddler called Gist and an unknown Native American woman, invented the Cherokee alphabet. He lived and traveled in western North Carolina, Tennessee, and Georgia until Andrew Jackson's \"Heart-Break Removal\" in the 1830s. He died in 1843 from a fever on the move west.
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Seventy-eight year old Sampson Welch was remarkably skilled at using a blowgun. The Native American, living on western North Carolina's Cherokee reservation, could shoot a feathered dart from a ten-foot blowgun and knock over a tin can at thirty paces. His son Epps and grandson June carried on the tradition using the ancient weapon.
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15368
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The Great Smoky Mountains National Park displaced folks who remained relatively untouched by society in the 1930s. Citizens most affected by the park were located between the Ocona Luftee and Nantahala rivers. In this frontier, many people lived in humble log cabins and practiced historic trades such as weaving with a loom.
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Tom Collins was the chieftain of one of the most aggressive clans in western North Carolina, as well as a pioneer, and feudal lord of the Great Smokies. Originally from Scotland, the Collins clan swore the English as their enemies, and this continued with Tom, a member of the Watauga Association. He is now memorialized in a ballad and alcoholic drink.
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Chief Yonaguskah, most famous of all Cherokee chiefs and the man who turned defeat into victory for General Andrew Jackson at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend, was responsible for what was considered the first prohibition pact to have been signed in the United States.
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Many of the Cherokees believe in witches, ghosts, and other supernatural figures, and they have their remedies for guarding against these malignant influences. Ghost may be friendly at times, but witches harm simply because doing so is an inherent trait of their nature. Witches are said to take the form of the mysterious lights that are often seen in western North Carolina, and relatives and friends must guard an ill person all night to prevent a witch or ghost from taking their spirit.
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Nathan Dempsey was a blacksmith in the Cane Creek section of Yancey County. He weighed over 250 pounds and stood six feet six inches. He was a man known for great feats of strength and boxing and wrestling skills. His grandson was Jack Dempsey, the world famous heavyweight boxing champion.
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Few North Carolinians know that one of the most famous banjo ballads ever written was created by a well-known jurist. Kidder Cole was a mountain belle, the daughter of a merchant, and Felix Alley was sixteen. However, another mountain youth, Charley Wright, beat his time, and he wrote the song \"Kidder Cole\" to soothe his aching heart. The two boys later made peace, but neither one of them married the girl. Alley went on to have a distinguished career as an attorney and judge. Wright performed an incredible mountainside rescue which earned him a Carnegie Medal for Heroism, but he died later in an automobile accident in the 1920s. Little is known of Kidder Cole beyond the ballad, but she was still alive when this article was written.
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The 30th Division, the famous World War I Division made up of men from North and South Carolina and Tennessee, is holding its 20th reunion in Winston-Salem. Parris recounts the experiences of Sergeant Albert H. Collins, who kept details in a little black book of the attack on September 28, 1918, which broke through Germany's strong Hindenburg Line in northeastern France. It was the last German defense on the Western Front.
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It’s the sun that is responsible for much faulty radio reception, and it was a Winston-Salem young man who led the scientists to discover this fact.
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